A cooking appliance is provided. The cooking appliance may include a burner pot having a plurality of mixing spaces and a gas valve device to adjust a flow rate of a gas to be supplied into at least one mixing space of the plurality of mixing spaces.

A combustor for a gas turbine, including: a fuel nozzle; and a passively-actuated valve for selectively directing a supply of fuel to at least one fuel passage in the fuel nozzle based on a characteristic of the fuel.

A control module for preventing acoustic resonance noise generation from a heat exchanger of a heating furnace, comprising a control signal generated by the control module. The control signal is configured to operate an induction fan of the heating furnace at more than one speed for a given heat demand mode of the heating furnace.

A gas burner (2) including a gas injector (3), a gas supply line (4) connected to the gas injector (3) so as to feed gas to the gas injector (3), and a single automatic gas valve (5) installed in the gas supply line (4) upstream the gas injector (3) so as to control gas supply to the gas injector (3). During ordinary operational modes, the single automatic gas valve always is in an open status not exceeding a preset upper opening limit. During temporary boost operational modes the automatic gas valve is in an open state exceeding the upper opening limit.

A method of operating a heat releasing reactor producing product gas. The method includes steps of (a) monitoring a current load of the reactor, (b) finding such a numerical value for a current computational maximum momentary load for which at least one product gas factor computed using currently monitored process data with a numerical model of the reactor fulfills an acceptance condition, and selecting the numerical value as the current computational maximum momentary load, (c) indicating the current computational maximum momentary load to the operator and/or, if the current load is (c1) less than the current computational maximum momentary load, (c1i) indicating the operator that the load may be increased, and/or (c1ii) automatically increasing the load, and/or (c2) greater than the current computational maximum momentary load, (c2i) indicating the operator that the load exceeds the current computational maximum boiler momentary load, and/or (c2ii) automatically reducing the boiler load.

The invention pertains to a method for operating a surface stabilized fully premixed gas premix burner. The burner is adapted to modulate between a minimum load and a full load, the ratio of the full load over the minimum load being at least 4. The method comprises the step of supplying a premix of combustible gas and air to the burner at an air to combustible gas ratio, the combustible gas supplied to the burner comprises at least 20% by volume of hydrogen, In the method, the air to combustible gas ratio of the premix which is supplied to the burner when the burner is operated at minimum load is set by a mechanism to be in relative terms at least 20% higher than the air to combustible gas ratio of the premix which is supplied to the burner when the burner is operated at full load.

A method of operating a dual circuit gas burner including an inner burner ring and an outer burner ring surrounding the inner burner ring; the method including: opening a gas flow to the outer burner ring while maintaining a gas flow to the inner burner ring closed during a predetermined period of time.

Combustion systems configured to achieve, and methods of operating combustion systems to attain, enhanced high turndown operation, are disclosed herein. In one example embodiment, a combustion system includes an air flow tube, an air inlet damper, a gas train, a mixing chamber, a burner, and a blower. A flow of air via the tube into the mixing chamber is governed at least in part by a status of the air inlet damper. Further, the air inlet damper includes a damper plate having an outer perimeter with a first edge portion that is complementary to an inner surface of the tube and one or more additional edge portions that define a first inwardly-extending cutout. In another example embodiment, the combustion system includes a control device configured to cause a control signal for receipt by the damper motor to vary nonlinearly in response to variation of a modulation signal.

A controller for a gas furnace, a computer-usable medium for implementing a method and a gas furnace are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the controller includes: (1) an interface configured to receive a heating call and (2) a processor configured to enable an inducer of the gas furnace at a low speed based on the heating call and ignite the gas furnace at a high fire operation when determining a low fire pressure switch of the gas furnace is open.

A modulating burner apparatus includes a burner and a blower placed upstream of the burner. A venturi is placed upstream of the blower. A damper valve is placed upstream of the venturi. The damper valve has an open position and a restricted position. A smaller gas valve and a larger gas valve are communicated with the venturi. A controller is operably associated with the system to select a position of the damper valve and to select the appropriate one of the gas valves so as to provide a low output operation mode and a high output operation mode, which in combination provide an overall turndown ratio of at least 25:1.